S17E7 - Category Leadership, Communities of Practice, and Unlocking a Company’s Ability to Scale, with Mark B. Jacobs

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanhwestover/) talks with Mark B. Jacobs about category leadership, communities of practice, and unlocking a company's ability to scale. See the video here: https://youtu.be/8GvpFeQysVs. Mark B. Jacobs (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbjacobs/) has spent 30 years in executive leadership guiding major growth initiatives and turnaround efforts using Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Sales & Operations Planning, Category Development, Leadership Development, Technology-Driven Processes, and SmartScalingTM - a process he refined and published in 2018. Mark has led re-capitalizations and start-ups, developing key organizational change agendas and leading their evolution to profitability and achievement of scale. His success scaling mid-life companies the real-world experience necessary to define a construct for achieving scale. Working with 2 other successful, seasoned executives Mark led an initiative to develop and prove out the first business accelerator for mid-life companies.  That business accelerator for midlife companies is the basis for the ScaleWerks Protocol. Mark has also overseen and contributed to major educational initiatives including the Physicians Executive Leadership Institute (Duke University) and the National Science Foundation Learning Portal. He is the author of Reality Leadership (Forbes 2000) and The SmartScale Playbook. Mark is a graduate of Indiana University where he earned an undergraduate degree in Operations Management with emphasis in Quantitative Business Process Implementation and an MBA where he concentrated his studies in accounting and finance. Check out Dr. Westover's new book, The Alchemy of Truly Remarkable Leadership, here: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/leadershipalchemy. Check out the latest issue of the Human Capital Leadership magazine, here: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/hci-magazine. Ranked in the Top 10 Performance Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/performance_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Workplace Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/workplace_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 HR Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/hr_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Talent Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/talent_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Personal Development and Self-Improvement Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/personal_development_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 30 Leadership Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/leadership_podcasts/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.